Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
JAMES BALDWINThe victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.
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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person.
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The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.
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Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore.
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All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it.
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
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